Dear friends,

Barcelona’s Jocular Theatre is back with its latest hilarious production, “The Foreigner”. You remember Jocular, don’t you? The same irreverent English-language group that brought you such corkers as “Lend Me A Tenor”, “Fuddy Meers”, and “The Nature and Purpose of the Universe”? Anyway, this season’s offering promises to be just as much fun and just as sharp.

What does a shy Englishman in search of rest do when he visits a fishing lodge in Georgia? In Larry Shue’s hilarious farce, Charlie Baker, a proof reader by day and a boring husband by night, adopts the persona of a foreigner who doesn’t understand English. When others begin to speak freely around him, he not only becomes privy to secrets both dangerous and frivolous, he also discovers an adventurous extrovert within himself.

Saturday, 21 May at 21:00
Sunday, 22 May at 19:00
Saturday, 28 May at 21:00
Sunday, 29 May at 19:00

at the Fundació Cultural Hostafrancs
c/ Torre d’en Damians 6, 08014 BCN
Metro: L1 Hostafrancs
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Tickets are 12 euros and can be purchased on the night of the show at the theatre.

Check us out on the Web:
www.joculartheatre.com

Feel free to forward this info to anyone you think may appreciate an uproarious night of comedic theatre in English.

Hope to see you there,

Joshua Zamrycki
Director, Jocular Theatre

It’s been too long since I’ve posting anything here so let’s do something about that, shall we?

As you may or may not know, we’re getting ready to present a new play. It’s really funny. You should come see it. I’ll post a press release right after this. But my point is that preparing a play (as both Director and Producer) can be pretty time consuming. All encompassing, some might say. Too much for a father of two, other may volunteer. A masochistic and ultimately fatal exercise, many agree. Well, you’d all be right. But somebody’s gotta keep the arts alive, right? Am I right???

One of the most daunting challenges in mounting a project of this magnitude is organizing the schedules of the many people involved. I can’t afford to pay anybody so I certainly can’t ask them to skip work just to prance around doing funny voices with me. So I’m left juggling everyone’s “free time” and trying to get everyone in the same place at the same time for an extended rehearsal process with suffering too many mutinies.

An organizational nightmare for most. But I’m a math guy. I make most of my daily decisions by creating spreadsheets. Producing a play is no different. I’ve got separate spreadsheets for casting options, contact lists, prop lists, actor availability, scene breakdowns, lighting cues, expenses, even poster distribution points! Spreadsheets just make life that much easier to navigate. Here, have a look at what I had to create in order to work out a feasible rehearsal schedule:

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You see what I did there? It all makes perfect sense to me. I wonder how much of it is understandable to the uninitiated. Let’s see if any of you can figure out what each column, color, grouping, or symbol actually means in my twisted little spreadsheet-fed mind…